Health Care Assistant for Specialist Nursing

Job Introduction
We have an exciting **part time** role as a **Health Care Assistant **within our Bickerstaff House, Ormskirk team. This is a flexible role for **22.5 hours** to work closely with our Community Nursing Teams.

Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital admission. You will support and assist the senior team members to provide care to people in their own homes for a wide range of conditions including diabetes, respiratory, cardiac and continence care.

Main Responsibilities
- To work as a part of a team to provide a service to deliver Support to patients in their own homes.
- Use enhanced skills to facilitate effective communication for patients with aphasia or other barriers to communication and understanding.
- Monitor patient’s progress, modifying intervention and reporting observations back to Senior clinicians within the teams, highlighting variations to expected outcomes from treatment programmes.
- Assist nurses in assessment procedures and provide equipment within agreed protocols.

This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent/appropriate qualification/experience to great use. However, this is not essential.

In this role, you will need a **driving license** and access to your own vehicle, allowing you to travel to service users' homes in the West Lancashire area.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As a **Healthcare Assistant**, you’ll be part of our valued team at **Bickerstaffe House, Ormskirk**

You will feel valued as a **Healthcare Assistant** within **HCRG Care Group**, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- £20,500-£22,000 FTE with group pension
- Membership of **My Reward Hub**, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- We are pleased to offer access to** Wagestream -**which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location